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This is wonderful! What a project! Sounds great and I bet you walked away from it with a wealth of knowledge from a compositional standpoint. > Hi Loopers! > > Just wanted to share a project I'm working on: Michael Maier's 'Atalanta > Fugiens' (1617) -probably the first multi media document in history > including 50 fugues, 50 emblems, and 50 epigrams, meant to be enjoyed > simultaneously. Though composed in 1617, they have a droney, medieval > flavor, and I went for a kind of 'Black Sabbath meets Bach' > interpretation. > > For the entire tracking process of all 50 fugues I used my trusty > Looperlative 1. > > I basically did a live looping approach in my home studio, layering the > fugues up one part at a time, then I recorded it from the LP-1 to a > laptop as a stereo track into Digital Performer. No punching in or > editing. It was awesome to be able to record with such a high sound > quality all at the touch of my feet! (thanks Bob!!) The ensemble is a 3 > voiced ‘BASS CHOIR’ comprised of BOWED UPRIGHT BASS, ELECTRIC FRETTED > BASS, and ELECTRIC FRETTLESS BASS. > > 'Clarified Birds' my group with visual artist J.F. Uccello is set to > release this in December. Our intention is to create a fine book that > includes a CD along with it. Joe will be toiling at length as he’s > planning to create 50 emblems of his own inspired by and based upon the > original 50. > > After the tracking was done, the audio was mastered by Robert Rich. > Though the fugues are only 1/3 of the total experience intended by > Maier, I hope that sharing the music might be of interest to any > interested in music with alchemical aspects, bowed bass, looping, or > fine books. Here is a link to all 50 fugues streaming on 'soundcloud', > > http://soundcloud.com/clarified-birds/sets > > Hope you enjoy them! Steve uccello > -------------------- Todd Matthews toddbass.com twitter: gtodd876